Why 2018 is the year of voice tech in healthcare

What IT shops and clinicians should expect in 2019: plenty of tech failures. “2018 is the year of the voice tech pilot,” said Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs, speaking at the Voice.Health Summit at the Connected Health Conference here. “We’re in this extensive period of trial and error.”Why now?Comparing the underpinnings of today’s voice technology to Apple’s original iPhone which came to market three decades after many voice patents had been filed because the tech and price point had to coalesce Klick CEO Leerom Segal said deep learning, natural language processing and parallel processing in the cloud have reached economies of scale such that voice devices are now sub-$100.